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The injunction that we should love our neighbors asourselves means to us equally that we should love ourselvesas we love our neighbors.- Barbara Deming

Think first of the action that is right to take,think later about coping with one's fears.- Barbara Deming

Vengeance is not the point; change is.But the trouble is that in most people's minds thethought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.- Barbara Deming

Punishment cannot heal spirits, can only break them.- Barbara Deming

All prisons that have existed in our society to dateput people away as no human being should ever be put away.- Barbara Deming

This is the heart of my argument: We can put more pressureon the antagonist for whom we show human concern.- Barbara Deming

Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger thatis affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change.I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.- Barbara Deming

The longer we listen to one another -with real attention -the more commonality we will find in all our lives.That is, if we are careful to exchange with one anotherlife stories and not simply opinions.- Barbara Deming

After the revolution, it might very well remain necessaryto place people where they could not do harm to others.But the one under restraint should be cut off fromthe rest of society as little as possible.- Barbara Deming

We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect haslittle force unless matched by the other -in balance with it...The acting out of that dual respect I would name asprecisely the source of our power.- Barbara Deming

After the revolution, let us hope, prisons simply would not exist -if by prisons we mean places that could be experiencedby the men and women in them at all as every placethat goes by that name now is bound to be experienced.- Barbara Deming

We learn best to listen to our own voices if we arelistening at the same time to other women -whose stories,for all our differences, turn out, if we listen well,to be our stories also.- Barbara Deming

The free man must be born before freedom can be won,and the brotherly man must be born before full brotherhood can be won.It will come into being only if we build it out ofour very muscle and bone -by trying to act it out.- Barbara Deming

Of course it can be said of jails, too,that they try - by punishing the troublesome -to deter others.No doubt, in certain instances this deterrence actually works.But generally speaking it fails conspicuously.- Barbara Deming

What we think, we become.All that we are arises with our thoughts.With our thoughts, we make the world.- The Buddha

Life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

To know yet to think that one does not know is best;Not to know yet to think that one knowswill lead to difficulty.- Lao Tzu

Every thought we think is creating our future.- Louise L. Hay

Tolerance is the first principle of community;it is the spirit which conservesthe best that all men think.- Helen Keller

If I feel depressed I will sing.If I feel sad I will laugh.If I feel ill I will double my labor.If I feel fear I will plunge ahead.If I feel inferior I will wear new garments.If I feel uncertain I will raise my voice.If I feel poverty I will think of wealth to come.If I feel incompetent I will think of past success.If I feel insignificant I will remember my goals.Today I will be the master of my emotions.- Og Mandino

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are,or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy.It is what you think about.- Dale Carnegie

I don't think of all the miserybut of the beauty that still remains.- Anne Frank

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.- Publilius Syrus

The most incomprehensible thing about the worldis that it is comprehensible.- Albert Einstein

The most important thing about Spaceship Earth -an instruction book didn't come with it.- R. Buckminster Fuller

We should not pretend to understand the worldonly by the intellect.The judgment of the intellectis only part of the truth.- Carl Jung

The greatest harm can result from the best intentions.- Terry Goodkind

To kill an error is as good a service as,and sometimes even better than,the establishing of a new truth or fact.- Charles Darwin

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.- Dwight D. Eisenhower

Men and women are not prisoners of fate,but only prisoners of their own minds.- Franklin D. Roosevelt

Nurture your mind with great thoughts,for you will never go any higher than you think.- Benjamin Disraeli

To change who you are,change who you think you are.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Every thought you thinkand every word you speakis affirming something.- Louise L. Hay

I think we dream so we don't have to be apart for so long.If we're in each other's dreams, we can be together all the time.- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

By not caring too much about what people think,I'm able to think for myselfand propagate ideas which are very often unpopular.And I succeed.- Albert Ellis

I cannot teach anybody anything.I can only make them think.- Socrates

WHY do you care what THEY think?- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

There is nothing to do.There is nothing to say.There is nothing to think.There is nothing to feel.The River of Life just flows.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Does anybody really think that they didn't get what they hadbecause they didn't have the talentor the strength or the endurance or the commitment?- Nelson Mandela

What you think of me is none of my business.- Terry Cole-Whittaker

The mind is everything.What you think you become.- The Buddha

The world is more malleable than you thinkand it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.- Bono

You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experiencein which you really stop to look fear in the face.You must do the thing which you think you cannot do.- Eleanor Roosevelt

Happiness is whenwhat you think,what you say,and what you doare in harmony.- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

If only the people who worry about their liabilitieswould think about the riches they do possess,they would stop worrying.- Dale Carnegie

We are shaped by our thoughts;we become what we think.When the mind is pure, joy followslike a shadow that never leaves.- The Buddha

When I am working on a problem,I never think about beauty,but when I have finished,if the solution is not beautiful,I know it is wrong.- R. Buckminster Fuller

Know that life is as easy or as hard as you think it is.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Farewell My FriendIt was beautiful as long as it lastedThe journey of my life.I have no regrets whatsoeversave the pain I'll leave behind.Those dear hearts who love and care...And the strings pulling at the heart and soul...The strong arms that held me upWhen my own strength let me down.At every turning of my lifeI came across good friends,Friends who stood by me,Even when the time raced me by.Farewell, farewell my friendsI smile and bid you goodbye.No, shed no tears for I need them notAll I need is your smile.If you feel sad do think of mefor that's what I'll likewhen you live in the heartsof those you love, remember thenyou never die.- Gitanjali Ghei

When you think you're out of time,smile, and turn back the clock.- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

If you think you're free, there's no escape possible.- Ram Dass

Life does not consist mainly,or even largely, of facts or happenings.It consist mainly of the storm of thoughtsthat is forever flowing through one's head.- Mark Twain